Archives: February2010

• Obama Scrubs NASA’s Manned Moon Missions

  Although NASA will get a budget increase for 2011, plans to return humans to the moon by 2020 would be officially scrapped, because the program is “over budget, behind schedule, and lacking in innovation,” according to the White House.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Birds Got Too Fat to Fly After Dinosaurs Vanished?

  The ancestors of ostriches and other flightless birds once flew, a new study says. They apparently grounded themselves in earnest, though, after dinosaurs were wiped out.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• How to Survive Without Sex for 50 Million Years? Dry Up

  Scientists have finally solved the mystery of how one tiny creature has flourished for up to 50 million years without sex: it dries up.